Daily Scripture Analysis

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Twelfth Sunday – Year A – Ordinary Time   Readings: Jer 20:10-13; Rom 5:12-15; Mt 10:26-33.   1/ Reading I: RSV Jeremiah 20:10 For I hear many whisperings. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him, and take our revenge on him.” 11 But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore, my persecutors will stumble, they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Eleventh Week – OT2 Readings: 2 Chr 24:17-25; Mt 6:24-34 Reading 1 (2 Chr 24:17-25): After the death of Jehoiada,the princes of Judah came and paid homage to King Joash,and the king then listened to them.They forsook the temple of the LORD, the God of their fathers,and began to serve the sacred poles and the idols;and because of this crime of theirs,wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem.Although prophets were sent to them to convert them to the LORD,the people would not listen to their warnings.Then the Spirit of God … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Friday – Eleventh Week – OT2 Readings: 2 Kgs 11:1-4, 9-18, 20; Mt 6:19-23 Reading 1 (2 Kgs 11:1-4, 9-18, 20):When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah,saw that her son was dead,she began to kill off the whole royal family.But Jehosheba, daughter of King Jehoram and sister of Ahaziah,took Joash, his son, and spirited him away, along with his nurse,from the bedroom where the princes were about to be slain.She concealed him from Athaliah, and so he did not die.For six years he remained hidden in the temple of the LORD,while Athaliah … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Eleventh Week – OT2 Readings: Sir 48:1-15; Mt 6:7-15. 1/ First Reading: NAB Sirach 48:1 Till like a fire there appeared the prophet whose words were as a flaming furnace. 2 Their staff of bread he shattered, in his zeal he reduced them to straits; 3 By God’s word he shut up the heavens and three times brought down fire. 4 How awesome are you, Elijah! Whose glory is equal to yours? 5 You brought a dead man back to life from the nether world, by the will … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Wednesday – Eleventh Week – OT2 Readings: 1 Kgs 2:1, 6-14; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18. Reading 1 (1 Kgs 2:1, 6-14): he and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here;the LORD has sent me on to the Jordan.”“As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live,I will not leave you,” Elisha replied.And so the two went on together.Fifty of the guild prophets followed andwhen the two stopped at the Jordan,they stood facing them at a distance.Elijah took his mantle, rolled it upand struck the water, which … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Eleventh Week – OT2 Readings: 1 Kgs 21:17-29; Mt 5:43-48  Reading 1 (1 Kgs 21:17-29): After the death of Naboth the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite:“Start down to meet Ahab, king of Israel,who rules in Samaria.He will be in the vineyard of Naboth,of which he has come to take possession.This is what you shall tell him,‘The LORD says: After murdering, do you also take possession?For this, the LORD says:In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth,the dogs shall lick up your blood, too.’”Ahab said … Read more